According to a New York Times article published Wednesday, more than 7,000 Obama supporters have organized on Obama’s own campaign Web site to protest his recent move to support legislation that will grant legal immunity to phone companies involved in the National Security Agency’s domestic wiretapping program after the September 11 attacks.
Disappointed Obama supporters told [...]

At this point, the Salesforce business model has generated nearly $1 billion in annual revenue and 41,000 customers. The operating margin isn’t great, but the company has established itself as an industry force with a generous stock price.

At some point, Salesforce’s cost of sale should decrease, and the Google alliance will legitimize the on-demand [...]

To use the Urbanspoon app as I had wanted to originally, it is necessary to click on the lock icons below the columns for neighborhood, cuisine, and price.

Much better, for sure.

While I was in Seattle, I had abandoned Twitterific in favor of another app, called Twitterlator. But now I’ve started using one called Twinkle, and [...]

The power grid needs an operating system to reduce congestion, says Optimal Technologies. Its Aempfast application gathers data to give operators more control over their grid.

Optimal Technologies raised $25 million from Goldman Sachs last October, one of several such start-ups to get funding.

But beyond calling themselves “smart grid” providers, many of these companies are [...]

But it’s sort of a nifty promotion for the U.K., where Bebo and now Facebook dominate the social-network scene. The test runs until October, and will be cross-promoted on both The Cloud and MySpace.
Social network MySpace has signed a promotional deal to bring free Wi-Fi to its users…but only in the U.K., and only to [...]

I wrote about the store when Lime Wire first announced it a year ago, thinking that it was a possible exit strategy in case the major labels won their lawsuit against Lime Wire and forced the shutdown of its Gnutella-based file-sharing client. But this announcement seems to show that Lime Wire is taking the store [...]

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…[T]he mobile web is likely going to be a significant part of our future, which is good news for advertisers because there’s one other thing we’ve been learning about the mobile web: people using the web on mobile devices are much more likely to interact with advertising.
As Volantis and others make the mobile Web easier [...]

Update: As a clarification, Microsoft previously had a Google News competitor, named MSN Newsbot, which no longer exists.

The orange breaking-news bar on the top is a decent feature of the site and only appears when big news is happening. The breaking-news information, unfortunately, appears only to be provided by MSNBC and not automatically generated by [...]

“This is where the advertising community has completely failed at adjusting and adapting and being creative,” Broes said, adding that if they did, “I think we would see a much higher cpm value for video.”

Webware’s Rafe Needleman calls it an automatic avatar builder. Broes sees it as a potentially revolutionary tool for advertisers.

He criticized [...]

There are, of course, some wacky outcomes on the myPicks map, such as the tie between Obama and McCain in Louisiana. Perhaps it just goes to show that Obama needs to work the Facebook crowd if he wants to win over more red states.

The point of the game is to accumulate points to move up [...]